186 THE CRYSTAL FALLS IRON-BEARING DISTRICT. 



PRODUCTION OF ORE FROM THE CRYSTAL FALLS AREA. 



In the following talile the first column contains the names of the mines 

 or combinations of mines of the Crystal Falls area. These are arranged 

 alphabetically for ease of reference, and not according to date of opening 

 or amount of ore produced, as is so usually the case. In one case, that of 

 the Claire mine, the mine was operated by the company operating the 

 Youngstown, and its output accredited to that niine until 1891, when the 

 two mines were separated. Following the name under which a mine is 

 known at present, there is given in parentheses in chronological order the 

 name or names by which the mines were formerly known. The second 

 column gives the location of the mine. Following these data there are 

 arranged in columns the yearly shipments from the time of the first open- 

 ing to the closing of the mines, or to January 1, 1899. In many cases the 

 ore body had been definitely located and considerable work done and ore 

 accumulated upon stock piles several years before the first shipments were 

 made, but it would be impossible to give the exact date of the opening of 

 the mine unless we considered the year of first shipment as such. In a 

 column following the yearly shipment the total shipment for each mine is 

 given. This is followed by a column giving the year in which the maxi- 

 mum shipment was made, and by another giving the amount of this ship- 

 ment. In the horizontal column at the foot of the page may be found the 

 total shipments for each 3^ear and the total product of the district since its 

 first exploitation. The figures for the district have been obtained either by 

 correspondence with the mining companies or from the annual reports of 

 the commissioner of mineral statistics of Michigan. Acknowledgments are 

 due to certain of the companies which have, through their managers, been 

 very obliging in furnishing information concerning the mines they operated. 



From a comparison of the total shipment of the area for 1898 with the 

 total shipment of the Menominee range 2,522,265 long tons and of the entire 

 Lake Superior region 14,024,673 long tons for the year, it will be seen that 

 the Crystal Falls area furnished 13 per cent of the total iron-ore shipment 

 of the range and 2^ per cent of the region.^ 



' Total shipments for 1898 were obtaiued through Mr. .John Birkiubiue from the Iron Trade Review. 



